Sheaf-carrier for harvesters



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' M. KANE.

SHBAF CARRIER FOR HARVESTERS.

No. 348 ,9 75. Pated Sept. 14,1886.

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' UNITED STATES MAURICE KANE, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHEAF-CARRIER FOR HARVESTERS.

, SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,975, dated September 14, 1886.

Application filed June 20, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVIAURIOE KANE,.0f Ohi- .cago,in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheaf- Carriers for Harvesters; and I do hereby declare that the following is such a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same, refcrence being bad to the aecom pan yi ng drawings, forming a part thereof. The object of my invention has been to provide an attachment adapted to be secured to any ordinary grain-binding harvester for the purpose of receiving the bound bundles or sheaves as they fall from the binding mechanism, carrying them with the harvester until a sufficient nu m her of bundles has been thus gathered,and then enabling the operator to drop the bundles from the'carriersi m u ltaneously,so that they can be more readily shocked, and which will be simple, light, cheap, durable,and easily operated.

In the aocom panying drawings, wherein similar letters of reference indicate like parts, I have shown, in Figure 1,aside view of my improved bundle-carrier secured to an ordinary grain-binding harvester, the binding mechanism being removed, in Fig. 2 a plan view of the same, and in Fig. 3 a sectional view of the operatingclutch.

In said drawings, theletter A represents the binding table or platform of aharvester; A, the usual metal standard, and B the breastplate. A number of downwardly-projecting curved carrying-fingers,0, are secured rigidly at 0 to the transverse portion of the bent arm 0. This arm a is hinged or pivoted at (t to the transverse portion of the standard A, as shown. The bent arm D is secured at one end to the arm 0, and at its other end is pivoted at a to the standard A. The shaft E is journaled in bearings on the standards E from thetransverse breast-plate bar B. At one end this shaft is provided with a cranlearm, D, and at the other end with a sprocket-wheel, F. A chain, at, connects the bent arm D and the crankarm D.

F is the constantly-revolving packer'shaft, provided withasmallsprocket-wheel,asshown, and which drives the wheel F by means of the sprocket-chain f. The hub of the wheel F is Serial No. 169,319. (No m del.)

long enough to pass through the standard E and to permit the pins f fto secure it in place, as shown in Fig. 3. The end of thehub is cut away, as shown, to form one-half of a clntcl1,G, the other lialf,G, being on the sleeve G, mounted on the shaft E, and prevented from revolving thereon by the pin 6. A slot, 0, in the shaft, through which slot the pin 6 passes, permits the sleeve G to be moved longitudinally 011 the shaft.

Surrounding the shaft E is the spring 8, one end whereof presses against the clutch G, and the other against the clutch G, both of which are recessed or hollowed out to permit the placing the spring 3 around the shaft,as shown in Fig. 3, the object being to keep both ends or parts of the cl utch apart while the bundles are being gathered.

Secured to the standard E, near the sprockctwvheel, is a bracket, 0*, having a pulley, 6 at its end. A chain or cord, (1, passes from near the operator over this pulley e,and is secured to an arm, (1", hinged at one end to the bar B, and-having its other end reduced and shaped so as to enter a groove orannular slot, 7, on the sleeve G. A cam, g, is formed or secured to the outside of the sleeve G, as shown, and engages with a friction-roller, 11', secured to the stationary bracket The operation of my invention is as follows: The parts being in the positions illustrated in full lines in the drawings, as each bundle is bound and released from the breast-plate B it will fall therefrom downwardly and be caught by the fingers O, the fingers being so shaped as to extend slightly beyond the loweredge of the binding-table A, so as to leave no room between the table and the ends of the fingers for a bundle to escape or fall to the ground. Vhen the operator wishes to discharge the bundles from the grasp of the fingers 0, he simply pulls on the cord or cable (1, thus causing the arm (1" to move or slide the sleeve G longitudinally on the shaft E against the spring s,and bringing the two parts G G of the clutch into on gagement. Th rough the clutch-sleeve and pin a motion is now communicated from the constantly-rotating sprocket-wheel F to the arm D, thus raising the arms I) and c and the fingers O to the position illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and releasing the bundles. As soon as the parts of the clutch have engaged,

the operator may release or slaeken the cable as the stud or friction-roller 11 will hold them so until the fingers O are returned to their normal position. The stop a on the standard A arrests the arm D at the proper time and relieves the cam of the weight of the arms,and the spring 8 thereupon disengages the parts of the clutch.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In agrain-harvester, the hnndleearrier consisting of the bar 0, having depending fingers rigidly secured thereto, and pivoted or hinged to the himIer-standard, in combination with mechanism for operating the same to release the bundles, substantially as specified.

2. In agraindiarvester wherein the bundleearrier is hinged to the hinder-standard, the

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TAYLOR E. BROWN, LEW. E. CURTIS. 

